RE: [SLUG] Optus cable URLs?

[luke@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

This is about not being able to get to the Optus cable modem home pages
from Linux...

>  On 17 Jul, mehmeto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> >  You should find that http://www (ie the internal pages) work fine for
> the most
>  
>  Hmm.  Thanks.  I'll try again.  Maybe I'm simply mis-remembering that
>  it didn't work ...  It *was* late, after all ...

The problem looks to be with netscape (4.7x).  It seems to be helpfully
deciding that http://www/ is actually shorthand for some other stupid
web site!  (http://www.www.cnews/ or something, if I recall correctly.)

I tried turning off smart browsing, but that didn't help.  Am I on the
right track, here?  If so, does anyone know who to force netscape to
use the URL you enter?

I tried lynx too, though, and it failed; but since I haven't done any
configuration of it, that may not be so strange.

luke